Interim review

Got some really useful thoughts and feedback from my review. Again we talked about slowing down and revisiting work. I was told my critical thinking is ahead of my practice, so this slowing down and re working on pieces will hopefully help. My work is not what my thinking wants it to be so I don't really feel satisfied with each piece. So am revisiting, as I said with Melissa, the make up performance. I've started by filming the simple act of putting my make up on and have used other people too. I'm going to experiment again with the tights over face and work out a way of putting the makeup on the surface that seems mote realistic, for this I may need to change to a new surface as the tighta are hard to work on, they slip and don't take the make up smoothly. I find it hard to stick to one piece but i'll give it a go.

Tutorial- Melissa Bliss

Had a tutorial to discuss my practice with Melissa Bliss. Was really interesting to hear what she had to say and what suggestions she had. We talked about revisiting work and looked specifically at the performance piece about make up. She suggested it needs to be more subtle and realistic, to put the make up on as I really would, to avoid rhe obvious 'tights on head', to just have a covering on face so it looks like just a blank canvas of a face. She suggested looking at using 8 then 16mm film as I would need to plan before doing. She also suggested using other people to perform the work as it would give me more freedom to do more than my own limitations. She questioned why I use webcam and camera phone rather than film (easier to access). Lots of really good input that I'm going to take on board.

Feet

Have been taking photos of feet for about 6 months now, I'm not sure why, I suppose I like the anonymity of the shots, most are of me in various places but I'm more interested in the secret shots of other people. I've no idea why I'm doing it but I'll just keep doing it and see where it goes.